Christmas Parties
Last year, I (Jim) realized that I love Christmas parties. I love the cookies, the music, the festive environment. I love mingling, seeing friends. I love singing Christmas carols and sharing stories with each other about meaningful Christmas memories. And I love reading the Christmas story by candlelight.
But we don’t normally get invited to any Christmas parties in Singapore! Singaporeans don’t do parties that way.
So last year I decided I was going to organize our own Christmas parties. We marked two evenings the week of Christmas, and invited our friends over for mingling and snacks and sharing memories and reading the Christmas story and singing carols.
And I loved it. It was the highlight of the Christmas season for me. And it was a new experience for a lot of our friends.
So this year we did it again. Only we did three parties, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. And two of them we took on the road, to friends’ houses. I printed up handouts with Scripture references and lyrics to corresponding carols, Kimberly organized the snacks, and we invited all our friends.
Again, it was the highlight of our Christmas experience this year…
